The question
As a child, what career or life did you imagine for yourself?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
This is a standing question in The Guardian's decades-long The Q&A and also recurs independently in career and life interviews.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
A teacher and a nightclub singer.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 February 2024 source ↗
A stuntman. Evel Knievel was an icon.
A tennis player.
A psychologist and then a diplomat.
A veterinarian.
Alan Bates, Lord Arbuthnot and Nick Wallis for exposing the Post Office and Fujitsu and, let’s hope, for ensuring everyone is properly compensated.
Young, beautiful, deluded.
To everyone I’ve bored.
When I started as a researcher in the BBC, I was working for an editor who was a self-confessed misogynist. He used to practise shooting by aiming his air gun at an aerosol can balanced just over my head. I made it a matter of pride not to flinch as the pellets whizzed by.
My hybrid car. Not glamorous, not fast, but indispensable.
Possible dementia.
Dominic Cooper, Orlando Bloom, Steve Pemberton, Emilia Fox, Paterson Joseph, Aidan Gillen
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